Only Got into State Schools: How to tell Mom?

intparent
Sat, 29 Mar 2014 01:28:17 +0000

Alumni interviews seem to have very little influence on admissions… they are more to make the alumni feel involved than to truly evaluate students, IMHO. Of course this will not doom you for life. You just need to tell you mom. Get it over with, you need to figure out where you are going and send in a deposit by the end of April. Since paying for this is probably a family decision, you can’t delay sharing your results. Tell her that you are disappointed, too, but ready to move on to make a decision among the schools that accepted you. You could print out the results and hand them to her if you don’t feel comfortable just telling her. That might help her accept it more readily if she sees it in writing (and might turn some of her unhappiness on the paper decisions vs. on the messenger!).